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An Inside Look: Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder Exam
1. Acquia Certification Program
An Inside Look at the Acquia Certified Drupal
Site Builder exam
Peter Manijak, Jeff Beeman,
Kenny Carlile
2. Acquia Certification Program
→ The Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder exam focuses on knowledge of Drupal 7 and
topic areas including Drupal features, Content and User Management, Content
Modeling, Site Display, Community and Contributed Projects, Module and Theme
Management, and Security and Performance.
→ In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
§ The goals of the exam
§ The exam blueprint
§ The nature of exam questions
§ Assessing your strengths and weaknesses
§ How to improve on your areas of weakness
3. Acquia Certification Program
SPEAKERS:
→ Peter Manijak
Head of Acquia Certification, Acquia
→ Jeff Beeman
Technical Director, Professional Services,
Acquia
→ Kenny Carlile
Technical Architect in Continuous
Delivery, Acquia
4. Acquia Certification Program
This exam validates a candidate’s ability to:
→ Plan, build, and manage Drupal 7-based solutions
→ Understand the core Drupal practices for site building
→ Develop and maintain applications using Drupal site building tools
→ Install and configure new Drupal modules and themes
5. Acquia Certification Program
Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder
Duration: 75 minutes
Price: $155
Length: 50 questions
Pass/Fail mark: 68%
(subject to change)
Test Format:
→ Multiple-choice: Examinee selects one option that best answers the question or completes a statement.
→ Multiple-response: Examinee selects more than one option that best answers the question or completes a
statement.
6. Acquia Certification Program
Sec$on
%
of
Examina$on
1.0
Drupal
Features
10%
2.0
Content
and
User
Management
18%
3.0
Content
Modeling
24%
4.0
Site
Display
20%
5.0
Community
and
Contributed
Projects
8%
6.0
Model
and
Theme
Management
8%
7.0
Security
and
Performance
12%
TOTAL
100%
7. Acquia Certification Program
Section 1 Drupal Features
1.1 Demonstrate the ability to explain the distinct and differentiating features of Drupal.
1.2 Given a scenario, identify specific Drupal features such as core modules, blocks or core content types used
for site building.
Section 2 Content and User Management
2.1 Given a scenario, determine how administration tools are used for site management.
2.2 Given a scenario, demonstrate ability to configure user accounts.
2.3 Given a scenario of a completed content item, identify which elements are taxonomy terms, image fields or
text fields.
2.4 Given an example of a page layout, determine what is content versus a block.
8. Acquia Certification Program
Section 3 Content Modeling
3.1 Given a scenario, determine the need for a custom content type.
3.2 Given a scenario, identify which field types or widgets would be appropriate for a content type design.
3.3 Given a scenario, identify which content type defaults should be set.
3.4 Demonstrate ability to configure both controlled vocabularies and free tagging with Taxonomy.
3.5 Demonstrate ability to configure file and image fields, including image resizing options.
3.6 Demonstrate ability to configure text formats appropriately to specific needs.
9. Acquia Certification Program
Section 4 Site Display
4.1 Given a scenario, identify the display types created with Views.
4.2 Given a scenario, identify the differences between using the menu system, block system or views.
4.3 Given a scenario, identify the appropriate permission configuration options.
4.4 Given a scenario, identify how a path was created.
4.5 Given a scenario, determine how to use blocks to display content within regions.
10. Acquia Certification Program
Section 5 Community and Contributed Projects
5.1 Given a scenario, identify when a contributed module would be needed.
5.2 Given example project data, evaluate the health of projects.
5.3 Identify ways of community participation.
5.4 Demonstrate knowledge of how to report issues against either core or contributed modules.
11. Acquia Certification Program
Section 6 Module and Theme Management
6.1 Demonstrate the ability to add, update, and remove contributed modules.
6.2 Demonstrate the ability to add, update, and remove contributed themes.
Section 7 Security and Performance
7.1 Identify security issues resulting from site configuration
7.2 Identify performance issues resulting from site configuration
